Alek Thomas #5

Signed by D-backs as a second-round selection in First-Year Player Draft (June 12, 2018) \[signed by: Nate Birtwell\]...Selected to play in the annual Double Duty Classic hosted by the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field, an event which celebrates the history and traditions of Negro League Baseball and showcases the next generation of inner-city baseball players...Is a 2018 graduate of Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, Ill…played baseball, football and basketball...Named 2017 Gatorade Illinois Baseball Player of the Year after batting.470 with five triples, 11 home runs, 43 RBI and 59 runs in 35 games...Played quarterback, running back and wide receiver for Frank Lenti, the winningest high school football coach in Illinois history…ranks among the school's Top 20 list in both passing yards and receiving yards...Listed by Baseball America as the No. 1 MLB draft prospect from Illinois and 57th overall in 2018...Was a member of Team USA's gold medal winning 2017 18U Team at the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Baseball World Cup in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada)...Teammates included Jarred Kelenic, Kumar Rocker and Brice Turang...Committed to Texas Christian University to play both football and baseball...Selected to play for Team Mexico in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

2022

Hit .231 (88-for-381) with 17 doubles, one triple, eight homers, 39 RBI, 22 walks and four stolen bases over 112 games (all in CF) in his first season with Arizona...Ranked among NL rookies in doubles (T-sixth), hits (seventh), total bases (ninth, 131), runs (T-eighth, 45) and RBI (ninth)...Selected from Triple-A Reno on May 8 and made his MLB debut vs. Rockies…recorded his first hit (double off Germán Márquez) in his second at-bat...Hit his first career home run on May 11 vs. Marlins (solo off Sandy Alcántara)...Collected his first two-homer performance on June 3 @ Pirates, becoming the second-youngest D-back with a multi-homer game...Had a 12-game hitting streak from June 8-20...Optioned to Reno on Sept. 26 and hit .643 (9-for-14) with three doubles and five RBI in his final three games of the season...Hit .322 (37-for-115)/.936 OPS with 11 doubles, one triple, four homers, 19 RBI and five stolen bases over 27 games with the Aces...Entered the season rated by MLB Pipeline as D-backs No. 1 prospect (18th overall)…rated No. 3 by Baseball America (32nd overall) and graded Best Defensive Outfielder...Was a finalist for the NL Rawlings Gold Glove Award® in 2022 (CF)...His six defensive runs saved in center field was tied for fourth best in the NL and six Outs Above Average was the 5th highest total among NL center fielders.

2021

Named the D-backs' Minor League Player of the Year and named to MLB Pipeline's First-Team "Prospect Team of the Year" after hitting .313 (136-for435)/.953 OPS with 29 doubles, 12 triples, 18 home runs and 59 RBI over 106 games with Double-A Amarillo and Triple-A Reno...Ranked second among all Minor Leaguers in triples…led all D-backs' farmhands in hits, triples, extra-base hits (59), total bases (243) and runs (86)...Following his promotion to Reno on Aug. 16, finished Top 10 in Triple-A in total bases (1st, 98), hits (2nd, 55), extra-base hits (T-2nd, 23), triples (T-2nd, 4), average (3rd, .369), OPS (3rd, 1.092), slugging (4th, .658) and OBP (7th, .434)...Collected a season-high 4 hits on 4 occasions… finished the season on a 13-game hitting streak (.466; 27-for-58)...Began the year rated by MLB.com as the D-backs' No. 4 prospect and No. 5 by Baseball America…also cited by Baseball America as the fifth-best prospect in Triple-A West after the season.

2020

Spent the entire season at the D-backs' Alternate Site…also participated in Arizona's fall Instructional League.

2019

 Hit .300 with 23 doubles, seven triples, 10 home runs, 55 RBI and 15 stolen bases over 114 games with Single-A Kane County and Single-A Adv. Visalia...Named Midwest League Player of the Week for July 1-7 (.500; 10-for-23)…notched a season-high 5 hits on July 2 @ Peoria and hit for the cycle on July 3 @ Peoria...Named to Baseball America's Low-A All-Star Team and a Midwest League mid-and postseason All-Star...Entered the season as the D-backs No. 7 prospect by MLB.com and No. 8 by Baseball America…named as the ML's Best Defensive Outfielder following the season.